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Paul Marek
Department of Entomology
Virginia Tech (MC0319)
Price Hall, Room 216A
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Tag Archives: biodiversity
The new leggiest animal on Earth
The leggiest animal on the planet, Eumillipes persephone Marek, 2021 with 1,306 legs. In September 2020, I received an email from Bruno Buzatto in Perth, Australia, about a millipede that he and his colleagues found in Western Australia. He explained … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, biodiversity, Eumillipes, Illacme plenipes, millipede
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The cherry millipede
We made this short movie about the cherry millipede, Apheloria virginiensis corrugata. Known from forests in the eastern U.S., the cherry millipede oozes cyanide and feeds on decaying leaves and other detritus.
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Tagged Apheloria, Appalachia, biodiversity, cyanide, decomposer, millipede, xystodesmid
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Fieldwork in Japan
Earlier this month, I returned from two weeks of fieldwork in Japan where I collected millipedes and visited my colleague Dr. Tsutomu Tanabe of Kumamoto University. The trip was a wonderful combination of productive fieldwork, great discussions with Tsutomu and … Continue reading
Fieldwork in Japan (part 2)
In Tsukuba, which is about 50 km northeast of Tokyo, we met Tsutomu and his student Ryosuke Kuwahara. I really enjoyed meeting Ryosuke because he’s very enthusiastic about natural history and takes wonderful photographs of xystodesmid millipedes (here’s a link … Continue reading